Scotland: Polish-English freesheet to be launched

Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on February 23, 2007 at 4:37 PM

The first bilingual newspaper in Scotland for the Polish community is to be launched next week. Gazeta z Highland will be free and have an initial distribution of 20,000 copies.

The paper will be a 16-page full-color tabloid and all articles will be written in Polish, sided by an English translation.

Between 8,000 and 10,000 Polish immigrants live in the Highlands.

The tabloid will be published by the Northern Times weekly in Golspie, and will be edited by Alison Cameron, deputy editor and advertising manager of the Northern Times.

Last November, The Reading Chronicle had decided to prolong the printing of a Polish-language weekly edition in the UK.

In the same way Spanish-language newspapers strive in the US, bilingual newspapers are starting to emerge in Europe, as publishers follow their consumers’ migrations.

Source: allmediaScotland.com